EVENT: Author visit, Eowyn Ivey!

May 23, 2013
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May 30th – Thursday – 7:00 pm – Downtown Library Come see Eowyn Ivey, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, give a presentation about her novel “The Snow Child”.  “The Snow Child”, based on a Russian fairy tale, is about a 1920s Alaska homesteading couple who desperately long for a child they can’t have and build one […]

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EVENT: Richard Hatch, Deceptionist!

April 20, 2013
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Richard Hatch, Magician at Large! April 27th – Saturday – 3 pm – Douglas Library Come see Richard Hatch, ‘deceptionist’, perform at the Douglas Library on Saturday, April 27th at 3:00 pm.  Hatch, a professional magician and author, will be performing his children’s book Taro-San the Fisherman and the Weeping Willow Tree, based on an […]

EVENT: Culture Days @ The Library

April 17, 2013
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Culture Days @ The Library April 25th – Thursday – 6:30 pm – Downtown Library Ishmael Angaluuk Hope will present the program Haa Léelk’w Hás Xh’agaxhtutée: We Will Imitate Our Grandparents at the Downtown library at 6:30 on Thursday, April 25th.  He will talk about his apprenticeship of becoming an indigenous storyteller, especially focusing on […]

EVENT: Author Vaughn Sherman presents Sea Travels: Memoirs of a 20th Century Master Mariner

April 12, 2013
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Sea Travels: Memoirs of a 20th Century Master Mariner – Author Vaughn Sherman   April 16th – Tuesday – 6:30 pm – Douglas Library   Come listen to author Vaughn Sherman as he discusses the life and travel of his uncle, J. Holger Christensen, a Master Mariner, at the Douglas Library on Tuesday, April 16th, […]

Juvenile Literature Reviews, March 2013

March 18, 2013
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Crush: The Theory, Practice, and Destructive Properties of Love Written by Gary Paulsen         This is another book about Kevin, a scheming middle schooler who tries to apply scientific theorizing to developing a romantic relationship with a girl. There are laughs along the way as when he creates a mess trying to provide […]

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Pam Houston and Emma Hill – A Conversation in Stories and Song at the Juneau Public Library

February 20, 2013
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February 23rd – Saturday – 7:30 p.m. – Downtown Library Pam Houston and Emma Hill: A Conversation in Stories and Song Pam Houston and Emma Hill love a lot of the same things: mountains, rivers, wild places, Alaska, good men and sometimes not so good ones, their girlfriends and their lives.  In this show, Pam […]

Empty Chair Project – Internment Panel Discussion at the Juneau Public Library

February 14, 2013
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February 24th – Sunday – 3 p.m. – Downtown Library A panel discussion about the Japanese evacuation from Alaska during World War II and the Empty Chair Project will be held at Juneau’s Downtown Library on Sunday, February 24th from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Marsha Bennett will introduce the panel members and moderate the discussion. […]

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